Capt. Carlos "Kechu" Marin: The eyes (and the story) of Belize.

What would've been the, a better fly than the Clouser? What were you guys using?

Well, um, well, we're using a lot of crabs now.

So right now in the market there is about 100 and something patterns now.

Yeah.

Uh, so we're using a lot of Flexos, we're using a lot of the shrimp, we're using...

You know what I mean? Uh, we...

Right now I'm using a lot of rod heads.

We could have them all colors, and right now what I'm using, I'm putting, like, different kinds of e- eyes.

I'm using red eyes, I'm using, like, you know, instead of way back in the old days they used silver eyes, and they used little black eyes.

Now I paint my eyes.

I paint them cream, I paint them a little red.

Uh, I believe the eyes, if I paint them red, it gives them more of attraction.

Hmm.

Like...

You know what I mean? The, uh...

So all depends, because, because mostly our shrimp in Belize, like, The Bahamas shrimps are really big.

Belize shrimp are more smaller, really smaller.

That's why our bonefish are more smaller.

If you go in The Bahamas, the shrimp are bi- uh, the bonefish are bigger because it's the pattern that they eat.

In Belize, our shrimp, if you find a little shrimp, it'll be probably a half an inch or maybe an inch, but he's almost transparent, that you could see his little guts.

Oh.

And, and he's re- little red.

His guts is really red.

So I believe by putting a little red eye, it imitates his red, and then he, he eats it more.

Yeah, like you're seeing-